06 Mar 1947
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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1947
Page
1
Oak Hill reporters note the Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce will elect officers at 3 30 PM today in City Hall. S D Morton outgoing president says applications are in for the managing director post left vacant by Owen Rickard s resignation to join Beckley Chamber of Commerce.
R L Higginbotham of Thurmond was held for grand jury and posted 500 bond after waiving preliminary hearing on a shooting with intent to kill charge. The incident near Depot Lunch left Nobel Humphries wounded and a stray bullet narrowly missed the C&O depot telegraph operator. Nobel and his brother Normani Humphries were jailed again after hearings and bond set at 500.
Miss Bessie Webb and Frank Caldwell married in a single ring ceremony at the Baptist parsonage on Moran Avenue. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Webb Sr., Mullens, works as a cashier at G C Murphy. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. L C Caldwell Princeton, is an engineer at Elmore terminal, Virginian Railway. They will reside in Moran Apartments First Street.
Pete Loescher, former road contractor and operator of the Chimney Corner on Gauley Mountain, died at his Eau Gallie Florida home. Final rites set for Melbourne Florida this afternoon. wife Madeline Wilson Blake, of Fayetteville.
Warrants against Otie and Randa Whittaker of Tralee mountain accuse cruelty and neglect of their children. Sheriff Paul Goode says impassable snow drifts up to 15 feet block service. boys James and TBUL, ages 13 and younger, remain hospitalized with frostbite and gangrene risk after prior rescue efforts.
Police investigate a possible robbery at Holley Jewelry Store on How ard Avenue Mullens after a whiskey bottle broke the door glass and blood spots appeared. R. Beecher Cook and state police respond as clerk W. J. Reed notes inventory needed to confirm any theft of men’s rings. A second window break at Sanit ary Cafe on Howard Avenue is blamed on a drunk.
Miss Nona Ingledew is returning home from Taylor-Dearing Hospital where she has been treated for head injuries sustained in a sledding accident on Poplar Street last week. Mr and Mrs W M Lewis report Mrs Lewis extended her Bluefield trip due to heavy snow and note Herndon Mountain Road remains dangerous.
Mrs. Carl Gentry presided at the Presbyterian Executive Board meeting after a pot luck supper at the church, following the business session.
Mullens residents filled the Athletic Association meeting as debate over the proposed field intensified. Two camps urged limited funding for a field versus expanding the site and facilities, with talks of using sinking fund surplus and potential stock shares for new members. Mount Hope police seek John Blaney amid a report of his daughter Annetta Burns death in MacArthur Kentucky.
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